11 mins
for SATB and organ
Text: John 1: 1-14
Commissioned by Dr Nicholas Fisher for the Choir of Merton College, Oxford
First performed by the Choir of Merton College, Oxford, directed by Benjamin Nicholas, on 16 May 2009
11 mins
for SATB and electric guitar
Texts: Antiphon to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Commissioned by the International Guitar Festival, King’s Place Music Trust and The Sixteen
First performed by The Sixteen and Tom Kerstens (electric guitar), directed by Eamonn Dougan, at King’s Place, London on 6 October 2008
29 mins
for SATB unaccompanied
Texts: Latin Mass for the Dead, Hōjō Ujimasa (1538-1590), Chief Aupumut (c.1725), Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993)
Commissioned by the Vasari Singers
First performed by the Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 11 November 2008
11 mins
for SATB, brass quintet (2 trumpets in C, horn in F, trombone and tuba) and organ
Text by Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Commissioned by the John Armitage Memorial Trust
First performed by the BBC Singers, Onyx Brass and Stephen Disley (organ), directed by Nicholas Cleobury, at St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London on 10 April 2008
6 mins
for SATB unaccompanied
Text: 5th Century Ambrosian Hymn
Commissioned by the Musicians Benevolent Fund in the name of Sir Thomas Armstrong
First performed by the combined choirs of Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and St Paul’s Cathedral, directed by James O’Donnell, at Westminster Abbey, London on 21 November 2007
6 mins
for SATB unaccompanied
Text: St Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) (Hymn for Lauds on the feast of the Guardian Angels)
Commissioned in memoriam Robert Beazer, M.A., for Edward Higginbottom and the Choir of New College, Oxford
First performed by the Choir of New College, Oxford, directed by Edward Higginbottom, on 7 October 2006